I have a piece of software that I have been working on for a while now. You can find it here. Since it is now at a stage where it could potentially be useful to other researchers, I decided to cover ...

The LGPL seems to stipulate that I have to distribute my app in a way that the LGPLed code can be replaced. Xamarin keeps saying that to distribute a mac app in the store, I need to use Xamarin.Mac ...

I want to distribute a Java class I borrowed from the GPLv2'ed OpenJDK and modified for my own needs as a part of my proprietary application.
The header at the top of the source file states (and I've ...

Say I create both a client and a server application. The server remains secret while the client is published under a GPL-ish license, so obviously the communication protocol can be reconstructed to ...

Not asking for legal advice, just educated intuition.
Lets say a programmer creates a program to provide a service, for instance (hypothetically) face recognition. User logs in, uploads pictures and ...

First, yes, I understand that you are not a lawyer and that you cannot give me legal advice. I swear I will not hold you accountable for any responses you may give, yada, yada, yada, etc, etc, etc.
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Note: When I say "open source", I am talking about GPL. Substitute with "free" if you prefer. When I say "closed source", I mean "not GPL or MIT, etc".
We have an open source (GPLv3) webapp that we ...

I'm not sure if this is a good question for this site, but it does deal with the things to do with working as programmer.
SELinux is a security enhanced version of Linux, and was initially developed ...

Say I have created a new (DSP) algorithm. Will I have some advantage if I open source the algorithm under copyleft licence (GPL etc.)? From what I know about licensing this should lock people out from ...

I've gone through a couple of Question on GPL here, but all of them are related to the compiled languages, libraries and distribution.
My web project has a backend that is BSD licensed. The front end ...

I'm beginning work on a project which I may wish to commercialize in the future. For now, though, it's just a prototype which I would like to release it with a GPL license.
My concern is: if I am to ...

As I understand, GPL allows use of a GPL program along with a proprietary program as long as they are separate programs and communicate at arms length.
In order to do this, if I spawn a process from ...

Orgmode is an emacs plug-in and is under GPL. I am developing an application that uses plain text files to store notes and I do like the org mode file format. I am not going to copy any of the orgmode ...

So, I know that if you use GPLv2 code in some server side code, you do not need to release that code (as long as you're not distributing it, of course :). However, let's assume that you accidentally ...

Can I use the RedHat devtoolset to build non-GPL-ed software?
Do I have to mind any caveats?
From my understanding, the devtoolset knows the limitations of the standard libraries shipped with older ...

I understand the rules of the GPL stating that if I distribute any software using GPL code, then that code must be licensed under the GPL.
However, I'm wondering what the rules are in this case: I am ...

is copyright string in gpl'ed program guarded from modification, by gpl or by laws? for example, is it possible to change "2001-2010" to "2010 to 2010"? or maybe change spelling of copyright holder ...

There are three software projects: A, B and C.
A is published to anyone and is licensed under GPL.
B extends A, is published too, but has no license information or is mistakenly licensed under LGPL. ...

Let's say there is a software that is build on basis of a GPL v2 licensed software. This software is being distributed in binary form. GPL requires that the source code and build instructions are made ...

I asked a question and received quite good answers. I read all answers and other sources about my question.
I concluded that if I write my code and distribute it to my clients for a free under my own ...

I was looking into ejabberd and found it is licensed under GPLv2. Let's say that I am using it as follows:
You will come to my website/app and login, then start a chat using Instant messanger. I will ...

So I had been using trianglify, and I was thinking about using an image that it had created. Trianglify is licensed under GPLv3, however, (as I understand it,) it creates unique svg files. The author ...

Let say you use libmysqlclient to connect to MySQL, and since the client is GPL licensed and so your program. That's fine since you are the only one working on the project.
Then, you have a staff to ...

I'm working on software that I intend to release under the terms of the GPL 3. However, I'd like to exempt the name and logo: the images with the logo should only be used with official releases, and ...

Is it legal to install tools.jar from OpenJDK in public maven repository? I found at least three topics on the Internet which conclusion was that such action is forbidden for jar provided by Oracle, ...

I'm developing software that i want to license under the MIT License. My software uses libraries licensed under the GPL. I'm NOT recompiling, building, or modifying the Library but I am linking to it. ...

I wrote a small tool I published on my blog. I did not even think about the license, just put the binaries there for everyone to download. Now I am thinking about making it open source (BSD or GPL) ...

I believed that Creative Commons Attribution License, even being non-copyleft one, was always and still is incompatible with GNU GPL because of multiple minor issues; which, however, were gradually ...